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I was very confused. I thought this had something to do with Rust and nix[1]. [1]: https://nixos.org/nix/ https://nixos.org/nix/

by geocar 11y ago

tomp 11y ago
Me too! It's actually about a library, nix, whose mission is "to provide ‘Rust friendly bindings to *nix APIs’". https://github.com/nix-rust/nix https://github.com/nix-rust/nix
Keats 11y ago
Same here. To be fair the Nix package manager has a name that is actively harming its growth since most people think *nix as in unix when you say nix.
- ris 11y ago
  Google does too to an extent, making troubleshooting more of a pain than it should be.
k__ 11y ago
Same here. I thought "A match made in heaven" But it will probably never happen, because Cargo is too good, haha
- wizeman 11y ago
  What do you mean, it will never happen? The nix package manager has (admittedly, undocumented) support for Rust / Cargo projects.
- lolidaisuki 11y ago
  Cargo is bad. I hate how every language has to have it's own package manager. It's worse than just reinventing the wheel because it's actively harming everyone by requiring them to have a million package managers installed and know how to use them all. And often times these language specific package managers are insecure and lack many features. If we had just a few big package managers like nix and guix people could just package for those and we could have everything in one place. Projects like node, perl, python, rust etc. don't need to be the only people in control of their package managers. They could just host language specific repos or something.
vog 11y ago
Indeed, using "nix" as a (Rust) library name is a very bad choice, given the increasing popularity of the Nix package manager.
- dkersten 11y ago
  I think we're now at the point where it is very difficult for any name not to clash with the name of something else. So I no longer worry about it.
  - xaduha 11y ago
    It's still easy enough, there are many hundreds of geographical locations in many tens of languages alone. Just make some effort.
  - lolidaisuki 11y ago
    As long as it doesn't clash with something in the same field. The problem isn't lack of good names, it's people wanting 3 letter names for all of their projects.
pmarin 11y ago
There is also another OS based on Plan9 [1] [1] http://lsub.org/ls/nix.html http://lsub.org/ls/nix.html
paulddraper 11y ago
Very excited, and then very confused. Because nix and Rust are both great.

I was very confused. I thought this had something to do with Rust and nix[1]. [1]: https://nixos.org/nix/ https://nixos.org/nix/

by geocar 11y ago

I was very confused. I thought this had something to do with Rust and nix[1]. [1]: https://nixos.org/nix/ https://nixos.org/nix/

tomp 11y ago

Me too! It's actually about a library, nix, whose mission is "to provide ‘Rust friendly bindings to *nix APIs’". https://github.com/nix-rust/nix https://github.com/nix-rust/nix

Keats 11y ago

Same here. To be fair the Nix package manager has a name that is actively harming its growth since most people think *nix as in unix when you say nix.

ris 11y ago
Google does too to an extent, making troubleshooting more of a pain than it should be.

k__ 11y ago

Same here. I thought "A match made in heaven" But it will probably never happen, because Cargo is too good, haha

wizeman 11y ago
What do you mean, it will never happen? The nix package manager has (admittedly, undocumented) support for Rust / Cargo projects.
lolidaisuki 11y ago
Cargo is bad. I hate how every language has to have it's own package manager. It's worse than just reinventing the wheel because it's actively harming everyone by requiring them to have a million package managers installed and know how to use them all. And often times these language specific package managers are insecure and lack many features. If we had just a few big package managers like nix and guix people could just package for those and we could have everything in one place. Projects like node, perl, python, rust etc. don't need to be the only people in control of their package managers. They could just host language specific repos or something.

vog 11y ago

Indeed, using "nix" as a (Rust) library name is a very bad choice, given the increasing popularity of the Nix package manager.

dkersten 11y ago
I think we're now at the point where it is very difficult for any name not to clash with the name of something else. So I no longer worry about it.
- xaduha 11y ago
  It's still easy enough, there are many hundreds of geographical locations in many tens of languages alone. Just make some effort.
- lolidaisuki 11y ago
  As long as it doesn't clash with something in the same field. The problem isn't lack of good names, it's people wanting 3 letter names for all of their projects.

pmarin 11y ago

There is also another OS based on Plan9 [1] [1] http://lsub.org/ls/nix.html http://lsub.org/ls/nix.html

paulddraper 11y ago

Very excited, and then very confused. Because nix and Rust are both great.